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Firms Left Behind : Emigration and Firm Productivity
Giesing, Yvonne - 2018
This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries …. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm … to 2014 as a source of exogenous variation in the emigration rates from new EU member states. We argue that a potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927105
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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2017
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964619
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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2011
This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020797
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Brain Drain in the Age of Mass Migration : Does Relative Inequality Explain Migrant Selectivity?
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Joerg - 2021
Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315938
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Endogenous Skill Formation and the Source Country Effects of International Labor Market Integration
Egger, Hartmut - 2007
a poor sending country, even if all agents face identical emigration probabilities. This is in sharp contrast to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776731
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International Migration of Skilled Workers with Endogenous Policies
Djajic, Slobodan - 2014
production function for human capital, the country's emigration rate, and the international wage differential. We use the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054317
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Why Do Low- and High-Skill Workers Migrate? Flow Evidence from France
Gross, Dominique M.; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2021
With a focus on the role of cultural clustering and income distribution, this paper investigates whether standard determinants influence international migration of workers to France with the same intensity across different skill levels and with or without free mobility. We find that low-skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317429
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Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation
Haupt, Alexander - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137447
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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125698
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Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries 1986-2006
Boubtane, Ekrame - 2015
This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native- and foreign-born populations by skill level. Specifically, after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020582